I was looking for an Arab-American entrepreneur who started a business with nothing. It is staggering how many of America's most successful Arab-Americans are Lebanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_Americans#Business …
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Taleb (famously) argues that the Lebanese aren't Arabs, which is an interesting rabbit hole to go down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicianism …
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
I still don’t understand why people think he is ridiculous for saying this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585000/ …pic.twitter.com/8E7YKDcD1X
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Replying to @LucreSnooker
I haven't researched it much but from my experience with Lebanese people, it's totally believable that they're very very very very different from Saudis, for example. Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, West Syria - that whole region feels very non-Arab to me.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
I’ve never been there but that was a core Roman area for a long time. The Arab conquests were relatively “recent” and aren’t thought to have involved huge populations of settlers who replaced all the people living there before, so why would everyone have a lot of Arab ancestry?
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Replying to @LucreSnooker
Agreed. I think it's just a touchy topic. You have the crusades, you have the conflict, and you have a very successful minority which speaks Arabic that Arabs would like to claim for themselves.
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